Martin Kay was born in Great Britain. He is known for his job as a computational linguistic. He started working in the Language Research Unit in Cambridge in 1958. In 1961 he became the head of the research in linguistics and machine translation. In 1972 he became Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of California.
Nowadays he is a proffesor at the Uniersity of Saarland.
He got an honoray Doctor of Philosophy from Gothenburg University in 2005. He´s a permanent chair on the International Comittee of Computational Linguistics.
His achievements include the development of chart parsing and functional unification grammar and major contributions to the application of finite state automata in computational phonology and morphology. He is also regarded as a leading authority on machine translation.
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